Washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

'HENRY II. PALMER AND SAMUEL D. PALMER, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

WASI-lING-lvl/tci-iINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,226, dated August 20, 1889.

Application iiled May 4:, 1889.

SAMUEL I). PALMER, citizens of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago andn State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsI vin IVashing-Machines, of which the following is a speciiication.

The object of this invention is to construct a washing-machine consisting of a series of rollers as the lower surface and a rubbingboard oscillated in contact with the lower surface. The rubbing-board is made yielding, so as to equalize the force applied to the clothes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an isometrical representation of a washing machine embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of one of the operating-handles, showing its connection with the rubbing-board.

The body of the washing-machine in this instance is of rectangularbox form composed of sides l, ends 2, and bottom 3, secured together so as to make water-tight joints. On each side are secured perforated brackets 4, through the perforations of which passes the vertical support 5 to the rubbing-board. The upper ends of the supports 5 are perforated, and a transverse bar G, having stud-journals '7, is supported thereby by the studejournals entering the perforations.

The swinging frame, which supports the rubbii'ig-board, consists of the depending' arms 8, secured to the transverse bar (i. At the free ends of the depending arms are pivoted operating-levers 9, having a handle l0, connecting their free ends. At the junction of the arms S and 9 a transverse bar ll holds them separated the required distance. The rollers comprising the lower rubbing-surface are supported to revolve in bearings provided for each end of the rollers, as shown.

The washing-machine thus far described is old and in public use. Therefore we do not An en- Serial No. 309,625. (No model.)

larged View is represented at Fig. 2, showing its construction more clearly. This pendent support is provided with two vertical recesses 13. A plate of the form shown has a horizontal portion la, with two prongs l5, which pass through the rubbingboard, by means of whichV the parts are connected. From the upper face of this plate rises two semicircular arms 1G, having their upper ends enlarged to nearly the diameter of the recess of the pendent support. The extreme upper ends are reduced, so as to form a rest for a spring 17 within the recesses 13. After the plate has been connected to the rubbing-board l!) the springs are placed in the recesses 13 of the pendent supports. The arms 1U of the plate are then inserted in the recesses sufficiently to allow stops or pins 1S to be passed transversely through the pendent supports below the enlarged end of the arms 16,which makes the connection between the pendent support and the rubbing-board. By this arrangement of the parts we produce a rubbingboard having a yielding connection with the operating-handle, so that the rubbing-board may adapt itself to the surface of the clothes placed on the lower rubbing-surface. Either end of the rubbing-board may rise independently of the other, and thus prevent damage to the clothes.

le claim as our invention- In a washing-machine, the combination of an operating-handle, a lower rubbingsurface, a rubbingboard, said rubbing-board having a yielding connection with the operatinghandle, said yielding connect-ion consisting of'a metallic plate secured to the rubbingboard, arms projecting from the plate and entering recesses in the pendent support, springs in the recesses against which the arms press, and stops for holding the arms of the plate in the recesses, substantially as set forth.

HENRY Il. PALMER. SAMUEL D. PALMER.

lVitnesses:

A. O. BEHEL,

E. BEHEL. 

